Au (111) surface, the most stable gold surface, has a periodic herringbone texture on it that can be observed by sophisticated microscopes. A long-term puzzle is why this strange herringbone forms on ...

Kanazawa gold leaf is a traditional Japanese material known for its remarkable thinness, just 100 nanometers—about 1/1,000 the diameter of a human hair—and its brilliant shine. Made using the entsuke ...